Re: Big Raw devices on Solaris

From: Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:41:57 +0800
Message-ID: <38170125.901@yahoo.com>

Sam wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> What is the Maximum allowed Raw device File Size for Oracle 7 and Oracle 8
> Database Server on Sun Solaris 2.7 ?
> I've heard of Solaris Kernel Panics with Raw devices of Size around/over 4GB
> with lower Solaris versions ?
>
> Also, Is there any Known drawback in Using such big Files in a database. The
> file is going to be Striped across many disks anyway.
>
> Thanks for any inputs..
>
> Sam

I think some releases of Oracle did not perform asych IO to files (raw or otherwise) over 2G...

HTH
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Connor McDonald
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"Some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue." Received on Wed Oct 27 1999 - 08:41:57 CDT